skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even further, maybe what you're saying is true under general assumptions, for 90% of companies. However, how do you know there aren't outliers for whom the assumptions do not hold true?

The right answer here is to have the person claiming inside knowledge describe the bad assumptions and why they weren't true in that particular case. Because that's how you distinguish that case from the one where a bad manager is just assigning arbitrary work.

More than that, you need that information to do something useful with it anyway.

Suppose the answer is that they're doing the research to see if they should enter the market for manufacturing the product themselves. Then this works (a) only in the case where the existing market is uncompetitive because otherwise the existing suppliers already have razor-thin margins and there is nothing to extract and (b) only if you're big enough to justify building an entire factory and buying out all of its output yourself. But under those circumstances knowing the cost of production could get colluding suppliers to cut you a better deal to prevent you from entering the market. Moreover, the cost is further justified in that case because if they won't cut you a deal you'd have had to do that research to start manufacturing it yourself anyway.

Without knowing that context the information is misleading. Because (a) implies that anyone doing it are actually the good guys because the counterparty is a price-fixing cartel or monopolist, and (b) implies that it's a waste of resources for smaller entities to pay to do the calculation when they can't enter the market themselves or credibly threaten to in order to get the deal. And even if you are big enough, you would still have to know that making that threat is what you have to do with the information.

So just saying they used it is useless until they tell you how, and then you can assess their claims by reasoning about what they tell you.

> We can't just take general principles and assume they hold true in specific circumstances - that is what makes this kind of work so hard.

General principles apply unless there is an exception. But if someone is claiming there is an exception, the first thing they should be expected to do is spell out how the exception works.
Ok but housing is legit screwed up.
Big conferences suck in just about every area. Back when I was going to the joint math meetings (a couple few thousand math people), the dominant smell was adrenaline, as departments tried to streamline their hiring process into the conference setting... Phds seeking postdoc positions were therefore trying to talk up their work publicly and rushing around to interviews on the side. It sucks as a conference, though: you get lots of heat, and little light.

I get the same feeling going to big ML conferences now. The incentives are all about job prospects and hype, rather than doing cool stuff.

The sweet spot is the 200 person conferences, imo. You have a much better focus on the science, can literally meet everyone if you put your mind to it. And the spaces tend to be more about the community and the research directions, rather than job prospects.
I'm curious too; of those it's the one I have the least experience with. It is currently not an option for me, as the aircraft I would use with it uses CAN perhipherals, which iNav doesn't support.
I am pretty sure that if Apple lawyers to present this argument. Then DOJ will find it a gift when they file a monopoly case around apple monopolistic position and restrictions of non-Safari/Webkit based browsers (probably app store too). Because this will make it harder for Apple to present the case about security or privacy of the users if they just said before in a court that they do this as part of their business model to earn money.
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Why not use the device grant?

It's designed for this use case (among others), is standards compliant, and leverages the OAuth ecosystem.

RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8628

An example golang CLI tool that uses it: https://fusionauth.io/blog/building-cli-app-with-device-gran...
I'm not really sure how that matters? It's possible to be rude without intent :)

Sorry if I came on strong. Not trying to start a fight. This just resembled someone I know in the real world.
Aji is the concept of essentially making lemonaid from lemons by using the existence of the dead stones to put pressure on the surrounding pieces and claw back some of your losses.

Because they haven’t been captured yet they reduce the safety (liberties) of nearby stones. And until those are fully settled an incorrect move could rescue them, and the effort put into preventing that may cost points in the defense.
I have not drafted a PDF myself and I doubt doctors will. They work in a text writer or spreadsheet application and then export or print to PDF would be my guess.
An interactive interface could spit out the PDF with the decision three in the end. This solution would still mean the decision tree source is in some software package.
Nope! The NFL has a long tradition of splitting off games into their own categories: most games are played on Sunday in the afternoon and are carried on the “big 4” networks in the US, then there are 1 or 2 games each on Sunday Night, Monday, and Thursday. To be clear: these are all regular season games, just at different timings.

The rights to each “day” of games then get sold off separately. So right now Thursday games are on Prime, Monday games are on ESPN+, and Sunday Night games are on Peacock. Generally the steaming services want to use the games as an onboarding tool, so they are not available anywhere else and you have to subscribe to their whole streaming service, not just the games.

There is a service called “NFL Sunday Ticket” but it only lets you watch the games that aren’t available to you in some other way (so if it’s on Prime it’s not on NFL Sunday Ticket for anyone and if it’s on old-school antenna broadcast it’s not on NFL Sunday Ticket if the broadcast is too close to you).

To watch all of the NFL games you’ll need:

- Prime

- ESPN+

- Peacock

- Cable/Antenna/Fubo/YouTube TV (for home-team Sunday games)

- NFL Sunday Ticket (for other Sunday games)

(Or you can just pirate them, which is cheap and easy.)
inspired by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42254156
Sports teams and orgs like FIFA are ruthlessly effective at extracting every last cent of value from sports broadcasting rights, to the point it's not profitable for broadcasters/streamers other than ESPN (and even the latter's profitability, once the mainstay of Disney profits, is collapsing). It's a mug's game to play, yet suckers are seemingly born every day, as with Netflix paying
My views on Dijkstra have soured over the years. He now represents a high priest of a "discrete mathematics" view of computer science which has wreaked a great philosophical mess over the whole project. He, childishly, associates complexity, materiality, and the human interface with "profit" -- it is by no means profit at all -- it is just a puncture to his platonistic circumscribed project.

Personally, I'd prefer if everything he represented was properly demarcated by 'mathematics', leaving its complex, material, physical realisation to 'computer science'. The failure to do this has indoctrinated a generation of people into a mysticism I'm not found of, to say the least.
Sure, if you have a lump sum to start with.

But dollar-cost-averaging beats saving up a lump sum and then investing.
I’m not closely familiar with this benchmark, but data leakage in machine learning can be way too easy to accidentally introduce even under the best of intentions. It really does require diligence at every stage of experiment and model design to strictly firewall all test data from any and all training influence. So, not surprising when leakage breaks highly publicized benchmarks.
Apple Explains Why It Doesn't Plan to Create a Search Engine
Show HN: Wake and Learn – Personalized LLM topic summaries via email
Nice tool, but I agree with other commenters that it needs to be implemented at the level of the terminal emulator (which makes it much harder to implement). The reasons for this are the following:

1. If a tool outputs escape sequences and expects the cursor to be at a certain position, this assumption will break
2. You have to not forget to pipe it, which might not always be possible to do cleanly
3. Since you're piping the output, many tools will stop using colours, etc, which is annoying.

I've tried to make a similar tool, but as a patch to bash (to color stderr output), and it had many issues that can't be resolved on that level, e.g. many programs assume that stderr and stdout point to the same PTY, so they can print some ascii sequences to stdout and some to stderr, and expect them to be displayed in the correct order. (The article about it, in Russian: https://habr.com/ru/articles/207768/)
> If you don't have decades of built up propaganda

But how are you so sure that doesn't apply to you?
Yes, or use the entry api: https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/collections/hash_map/enum...
Noise_step: Training in 1.58B with No Gradient Memory
Yes, I get that, but does the large block sequential read pattern matter with SSDs, or do the benefits only accrue with spinning disk drives?
I think it’s just the sheer size and appetite of top dogs like the premier league.

La Liga and Bundesliga are both on ESPN+ in a single sub, all Serie A and Champions League matches are on Paramount+, all MLS matches are on Apple+, etc.
This appears in his dialogue On Oratory, and the attribution of the modern version of the direct quote to him is a bit of a misattribution because he doesn't say it (ironically) in so few words.

The parent I responded to gave the exact Pascal quote, but it has been given in many forms by many writers, all of whom had likely read quite a bit of Cicero.

Martin Luther also talked the same way about his sermons far earlier than Pascal.

The well-known Shakespeare quote, "Brevity is the soul of wit" is also another (loose) translation of a passage from On Oratory.
Huh? I use tab groups heavily in Brave. They're very useful, even if they're not nestable.
Came up on Junior Taskmaster today … https://youtu.be/Dkdcggh1SbU
This somehow reminds me of Egyptian mathematics where they refused to admit to the existence of any fraction with a numerator other than 1 (except for 2/3).

Learning how to expand e.g. 3/7 into 1/n + 1/m + ... using their methods was a fascinating experience.

I wouldn't want to suffer under such constraints day to day but it was one of the most memorable parts of the History of Mathematics course I took alongside what was other a mostly pure maths degree.
Why is anything stuck in PDFs?

PDFs are just good for just one thing: printing. Data stored as PDF is meant to be printed and not being processed by any other means.
Yeah, that's why we really started to invest in it in the 1950's. Only idiots see fault in that.
Brave has a setting to enable/disable the feature, idk if standard Chrome has it.
Why are you asking them? Isn't to discover that a major reason to model neural networks?
Chromium has had tab groups for ages, both on desktop and mobile.
> It's like saying that we can't simulate a computer in a Turing machine because a Turing machine doesn't have a USB port to connect a mouse.

I don't follow the analogy.
> Hence my urgent advice to all of you to reject the morals of the bestseller society and to find, to start with, your reward in your own fun.

Honestly that sounds pretty nice.
Jeez, I've heard all this and much about online trading portals 2 decades ago. They weren't incorrect, anybody could trade, even alghoritmically. AI isnt bringing anything added for regular users that others dont have, so nothing.

You make your own priorities and risks, as do we. Your comment anyway reads like some cheap marketing for clueless folks on the back of a bus just before bubble bursts.
Some notes from the author at https://x.com/_brickner/status/1871348156786704657?s=46
Aren’t nearly all US metros “blue”? Including NYC, Philly, SF? Definitely agree it’s not left/right. If it were, you’d think people living in those places would vote differently.

I’ve lived just outside of NYC, for a decade, have also lived in SF for a decade, and tend to agree, “feel safe walking down the street” (aka minimal minor crimes) is key.

Last time I was in NYC it wasn’t the immigrants that bothered me. It was the random (non-immigrant homeless drug addict) guy who out of the blue punched me in the arm then ran away while I was in line for a slice of pizza. And the guy touching himself on the sidewalk. That type of everyday “crime” is where I would focus.
"We failed you but we're taking steps to avoid this happening again in the future" is like textbook institutional apology.
Brain-to-Text Benchmark '24
Tree Style Tabs?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
I am getting used to good products becoming worse for reasons that are never explained. As long as I am not seeing ads in the interface this is still better than forgetting a password.
> trying to compile against the prebuilt duckdb_static.so

Typically you statically link against .a object library. .so are shared objects intended for dynamical linking only. Does duckdb provide something like duckdb.a ?
The MTEB benchmark was never that great since embeddings are used for more specific domain-specific tasks (e.g. search/clustering) that can't really be represented well in a generalized test, moreso than LLM next-token-prediction benchmarks which aren't great either.

As with all LLM models and their subproducts, the only way to ensure good results is to test yourself, ideally with less subjective, real-world feedback metrics.
Walmarts pays the same min wage as every other grocery store so that’s not it. And they employ a heck of a lot more. Vons maybe has three people at any time. WM also carries local produce and products. I’m sure there’s some cherry picked examples out there but the vast majority of cities are probably benefiting from a large anchor store.
Yes, it's pretty scary that anyone sees things so black and white and would encourage their children to do the same. These are multi-decade conflicts where no one has clean hands.
This is obvious to me. A different value system is required to approach justice differently. Sadly this indicates that it is not just our justice system that needs fixing, but instead our entire societal culture. It’s no wonder we have such outlying violence statistics, we are just more bloodthirsty.

And this is coming from someone who believes that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Yes, guns make it easier, but you have to want to kill first, and we simply have more of that per capita.

Likewise, maybe the same society that views justice as retributive, is one that will fight tooth and nail to keep access to guns unchanged even in the face of elementary school massacres and toddlers accidentally discharging guns left lying around, as well as look the other way from abysmal mental health crises leading to dire situations that lead to a variety of violence and trauma.

So yes, I agree that we won’t just see it replicated in American society anytime soon.
That’s a feature. It’s like Broadcom increasing the price of VMWare. They only want rich customers.
Even when you use array indices, I don't think you give those protections up. Maybe a few, sure, but the situation is still overall improved.

Many of the rules references have to live by, are also applied to arrays:

- You cannot have two owners simultaneously hold a mutable reference to a region of the array (unless they are not overlapping)

- The array itself keeps the Sync/Send traits, providing thread safety

- The compiler cannot do provenance-based optimizations, and thus cannot introduce undefined behavior; most other kinds of undefined behavior are still prevented

- Null dereferences still do not exist and other classes of errors related to pointers still do not exist

Logic errors and security issues will still exist of course, but Rust never claimed guarantees against them; only guarantees against undefined behavior.

I'm not going to argue against managed code. If you can afford a GC, you should absolutely use it. But, compared to C++, if you have to make that choice, safety-wise Rust is overall an improvement.
Kindle Edition: £2.99

Sounds like at least £2.99's worth of fun to me from the blurb, so it's now queued up.

I swear I'll get to it eventually.

... honest.
No worries.

Not sure why karma sharing would be necessary--first posters deserve the karma.
Also, and not quite. I believe the author is mostly talking about how undergraduate and masters degree can already do what PhD students set out to do a few years ago, so they might complete their PhD but it will be them vs someone cheaper and younger with the same hot skills and knowledge. The extra PhD ooomph isn't providing more value.
The main benefit from contiguous storage is it can be a better match to the cache. Modern CPUs read an entire cache line in a burst. So if you're iterating through a contiguous array of items then chances are the data is already in the cache. Also the processor tends to prefetch cache lines when it recognizes a linear access pattern, so it can be fetching the next element in the array while it's working on the one before it.
Equating “the social contract” with the type of legal construction involved with actual indentured servitude is some real “a taco is a hotdog” thinking.
I think it's more about concern for society and Western civilization in particular. Low fertility will cause nations, and cultures, to contract and eventually collapse. 'Eventually' not being some excessively distant reference - South Korea may well become a failed state within our lifetimes if nothing radically changes, seouly due to fertility. And most other nations will be right behind them.

As for anybody's parenting - I have certainly raised my children in ways that would offend the sensibilities of this group or that. But it's what I think is right. So under this mindset, and a bit of the Golden Rule, I do not criticize other's parenting outside of obvious extremes.
Yes, what you decide to call a system that exhibits the properties of "self-awareness" is entirely meaningless. The consequences are exactly the same. You can call it "fake self-awareness" or whatever you want but that doesn't change anything.

If I say you are conscious, it's simply an assumption based on actions I observe from you.

If I instead say, "No, yborg just has 'fake consciousness'", guess what ? Nothing changes for the rest of the world. If punched you, I'd expect retaliation. Whether I said that was real anger or pretend anger is again irrelevant.
> It takes an LLM millions of examples to learn what a human can in a couple of minutes

LLMs learn more than humans learn in a lifetime in under 2 years. I don't know why people keep repeating this "couple of minutes". Humans win on neither the data volume to learn something nor the time.

How much time do you need to learn lyrics of a song? How much time do you think a LLaMA 3.1 8B on a 2x3090 need? What if you need to remember it tomorrow?
As a host, you don't have to use their services for your site. As a visitor, you really don't have a choice as most sites you visit use CloudFlare.
Zinger – An HTTP requests library for the Zig programming language
London Transport Explained in Nine Graphs
> They're big enough that they can run more than one case at a time.

They really aren’t. They have limited money, time, and staff. They should focus on important cases. Obviously they can’t do everything, since they’ve taken no action in numerous other worse situations.
I think there's a pretty good case to be made that LLMs paired with automated theorem provers will become a useful tool to working mathematicians in the next few years. Another thread here links to a lecture from a professor of mathematics who makes this point about halfway in, based solely on Alpha Proofs current abilities (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYCT7cw0ycw [54min]). Terence Tao, well-known mathematician at UCLA has been saying similar things for years. He's blogged about LLMs helping to learn new tools (like Lean) and occasionally helping with brainstorming.

At this stage, the point they're making isn't 'OMG AGI!!!' but rather something like 'having an enthusiastic, often wrong undergrad assistant who's available 24/7 can be useful, if you use it carefully.'
Spoken like someone who has never been the victim of a serious crime.
Indeed. If I have to ask myself questions like "was this product made with forced labor?", "what about coerced?", and "where is the line drawn?" then the right answer is to just walk away.
For the NHL, I would pay more for the pirate streaming setup I have than I would for SportsNet in Canada. The only thing they have to do to get money from me is offer a product that isn’t absolute trash.
I really don't care about watching millionaires play for billionaires, or indentured servitude college students making billions for the NCAA. College sports are a whole other racket that has destroyed our schools
Australia is banning social media for teens. Should Canada do the same?
I'm saying it doesn't apply to my 10 year old
Egan would probably be my first thought of somebody who could take a concept like that and make something well worth reading out of it.

Second thought would probably be Derek Künsken. (no claim he's necessarily the second best option but he's definitely the second author I've read recently enough to have the name of in brain cache to come to mind as "could almost certainly pull it off")
upvote for tau, the one really running the show while pi gets the fame & fortune
Learning from the Web (2005)
So, does ollama use this work or does it do something else? How does it compare?
> And the ancient Romans had indoor plumbing.

Only a handful of rich Romans.

> or clearly it was possible to purchase cars and washing machines, and transport goods, and have hospitals and air conditioning without "big business" of the scale that the context of this thread is clearly referring to.

Nope. It took Ford's big business to be able to make cars cheap enough for the masses. Before Ford, it was a luxury item for a handful of wealthy people.

Railroads were big business, too. You cannot have much of an economy with just horses.
Here have some edge cases for chess, fortresses. The first three are "0.0" in the fourth black wins.

8/8/8/1Pk5/2Pn3p/5BbP/6P1/5K1R w - - 0 1 (white can not free the rook)

1B4r1/1p6/pPp5/P1Pp1k2/3Pp3/4Pp1p/5P1P/5K2 b - - 0 1 (the rook can not enter white's position)

kqb5/1p6/1Pp5/p1Pp4/P2Pp1p1/K3PpPp/5P1B/R7 b - - 0 1 (Rook to h1. King to g1, Queen can not enter via a6)

2nnkn2/2nnnn2/2nnnn2/8/8/8/3QQQ2/3QKQ2 w - - 0 1 (the knights advance as block, so that attacked knights are protected twice)

In the first both Stockfish and Lc0 think white is better (slightly on a deep ply). In the second and in the third they think black wins. Lc0 understands the fourth (applause), Stockfish does not.
Can you please provide an example? With my experience the code it generates is mediocre at best. It works after a couple of nudges, but the approach to problem is quite average with lots of oversights.
Legacy chips: USA investigates possible China market manipulation
Likely no - by simply watching the content you are signaling to the algorithm that it should promote the video to others. I’m sure he prefers you would engage with his revenue schemes, but even flippantly commenting here grows awareness for his brands which grows his top line.
10 year olds can figure out that killing children for 14 months is evil . That everyone can't see that is the power of propaganda.
The mindset is that simple is easy and easy isn't worth much, if any, money.